You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit.

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

Worship is love responding to love.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best.

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

Millionaire don't compare but prepare what they seek.

I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

You have to be resilient.

'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.